Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 34
The princess was wild to see the other toys and taking six maid-servants with her went with the minister to the seashore and aboard the ship.
Who acts: princess · What happens: be, see, take, go · To what, where: other toys, six maid servants, seashore
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wild | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wild | cop |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wild | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 toys | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 toys | amod |
| 9 | toys | toy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taking | cc |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 see | conj |
| 12 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 servants | nummod |
| 13 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 servants | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 maid | punct |
| 15 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 taking | obj |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 went | nmod:poss |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 taking | advcl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 minister | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 minister | det |
| 21 | minister | minister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 seashore | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 seashore | det |
| 24 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ship | cc |
| 26 | aboard | aboard | ADP | _ | 28 ship | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ship | det |
| 28 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seashore | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the princess | wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the princess not said here | the other toys | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer toy=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | the princess not said here | six maid servants | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the princess not said here | the seashore and the ship | with the minister; princess nmod:poss | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seashore=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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